Watch Celebrating Stop-Motion Animator Beck Underwood and Creepy Christmas | MoMA Virtual Cinema Streaming

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Held on Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 12:00 p.m.–Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

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That Creepy Old Doll. 1998. USA. Directed by Beck Underwood. Courtesy Glass Eye Pix

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A producer, production designer, and art director on many Glass Eye Pix productions, including Hollow Venus, No Telling, Stake Land, and Stray Bullets, Beck Underwood is also an award-winning animator who creates “perfectly perfect” little eccentric worlds mixing stop-motion and live action. She is also the creator of the kids-friendly zine ZuZu and the founder of the Creepy Christmas Film Festival which, she recalls, “began as a large diorama I built, became a printed advent calendar, and eventually inspired two online film festivals, the first in 2008 and another in 2018. Twenty-five filmmakers were invited to create a short film based on images from the calendar or holiday-themed words.” Separately, Underwood’s short film An Exquisite Task screens theatrically with Most Beautiful Island, and Uncle Ben streams online with Birth of the Living Dead.

Program 20 min.

Beck Underwood: Four Films
That Creepy Old Doll. 1998. USA. Directed by Beck Underwood.
Underwood made her first 16mm animation while a student at SVA. 2 min.
Perfectly Perfect. 2009. USA. Directed by Beck Underwood. Music video for Elizabeth and the Catapult. 3 min.
The Estate of Things. 2020. USA. Directed by Beck Underwood. 2 min.
There in Spirit. 2020. USA. Directed by Beck Underwood. 5 min.

Creepy Christmas: Three Films
The Souvenir. 2019. USA. Directed by Merrill Rauch, with Gareth, Sam and Maud Brown. 2 min.
Swollen Archive. 2008. USA. Directed by Glenn McQuaid. Music by Nico Muhly. 2 min.
Wild Ride. 2019. USA. Directed by Larry Fessenden. Music by Will Bates. 4 min.

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This film accompanies Oh, the Humanity! The Films of Larry Fessenden and Glass Eye Pix.

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